Polio campaign in Delhi focuses on children in transit

November 13, 2010 09:15 pm | Updated 09:16 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Health Minister Kiran Walia administer polio drops to a child in New Delhi on Saturday.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Health Minister Kiran Walia administer polio drops to a child in New Delhi on Saturday.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday launched another round of Pulse Polio campaign in Delhi by administering anti-polio drops to some children at a function organised at her 3, Motilal Nehru Place residence here.

Stating that Delhi Government would make all efforts to keep the Capital city free of the polio virus, Ms. Dikshit said for a strong nation, we must have strong children and this would only be possible with the success of the Pulse Polio program.

Claiming that Delhi has shown good results in eradication of polio, the Chief Minister said it would continue to strive hard to eliminate the debilitating virus. It was also mentioned that Delhi initiated Pulse Polio Immunisation Program in 1994 and had launched house to house “search and immunisation” in the year 1999.

The Chief Minister said the last phase of Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme 2010-11 had been successfully implemented on September 19, 2010 and it was followed by five days of house-to-house ``search and immunise” activity.

Ms. Dikshit exhorted parents to come forward and bring their children up to five years of age for immunisation at polio booths to ensure the success of the current round of the immunisation program as well

She said this time special arrangements have also been made to cover the children in transit at railway stations as a large number of people were returning after Chhat Puja. Similarly, she said, children would be immunised during Nirankari Sant Samagam at Burari Camp, the Sadbhavna Sammelan at Ramlila Ground and the India International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan.

Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said 8,000 polio booths would be set up on Sunday for administering polio vaccine to children up to five years of age. For this, she said, about 30,000 workers and employees of the Health Department would be deployed. The immunisation would be done from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m..

Apart from this, a door-to-door weeklong survey would also be conducted under search and immunisation Pulse Polio campaign during which around 17,000 workers in 9,200 teams would visit different colonies and administer polio drops to those children who missed out on the vaccination.

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